Reliability Requirements in Mobile Agent Systems
Resumo
A fundamental issue in the development of mobile agent systems is how to provide support for agent applications reliability. For some agent applications areas (such as electronic commerce or workflow) it is fundamental that mobile agent executions are fault tolerant and exhibit transactional semantics or that groups of mobile agents can coordinate their activities with the use of a reliable communication mechanism. This paper discusses reliability requirements in agent systems and introduces mobile process groups as a suitable underlying concept for fulfilling these requirements. Mobile process groups are an extension of the concept of groups in traditional group communication systems that supports mobility of group members.
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F.B.Schneider. Towards Fault-tolerant and Secure Agentry. Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Distributed Algorithms. Saarbrücken, Germany. September, 1997
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Publicado
15/07/2000
Como Citar
SILVA, Flávio Morais de Assis; MACÊDO, Raimundo José de Araújo.
Reliability Requirements in Mobile Agent Systems. In: WORKSHOP DE TESTES E TOLERÂNCIA A FALHAS (WTF), 2. , 2000, Curitiba/PR.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2000
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p. 4-9.
ISSN 2595-2684.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wtf.2000.23466.
